Nurses

Practice Nurses

We have two part-time practice nurses Elaine Hendry and Niamh Heald, they are on hand to give advice on many aspects of healthcare, minor illnesses and lifestyle.

Services include:-

• Cervical smears
• Chronic disease management (asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease etc)
• Venipuncture
• Blood pressure monitoring
• New patient medicals
• Dressings and suture removal
• Immunisations (Note – nurses and GPs will no longer be doing childhood immunisations)
• Injections
• ECGs
• Warfarin monitoring
• 24 hour blood pressure monitoring
• Contraception advice/prescriptions

Nurse Elaine Hendry (f)

Practice Nurse

Healthcare Assistants (including Phlebotomy)

Avril McLaren is our Healthcare Assistant whose duties include:

• Venepuncture
• ECG
• Suture removal
• 24-hour blood pressure monitoring
• Chaperone

Mrs Avril McLaren (f)

Healthcare Assistant